Re: Introducing sysupgrade

[Matt Sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

I am not able to view the code yet, so if you don't mind answering...

does it track changes and allow rollback?

Does it update the mtree files?



On Aug 6, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Following my previous announcement of sysbuild, I'm introducing
> sysupgrade today (pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade).
> 
> sysupgrade is a script to, as you can guess, automate the upgrade of a
> live NetBSD system to a newer release based on distribution sets.  I'm
> not going to say much more in this email as the following two links
> contain much more details:
> 
>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2012/08/06/msg076544.html
>    http://julipedia.meroh.net/2012/08/introducing-sysupgrade.html
> 
> What I would like to clarify here is that, since the addition of
> sysbuild, I was made aware of the companion scripts included in
> etcmanage.  However, I have moved forward with sysupgrade anyway for a
> variety of reasons -- mostly because I had it written already, but
> there are others as mentioned in the commit message ;-)
> 
> Feedback and testing welcome.
> 
> Enjoy!